Little did the tribals know that death awaited them at the village temple. On the night of 17 May, they had gathered at Edesmeta village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district to celebrate a local festival when the firing started. Eight villagers, including three…

Gond tribals and anti-nuclear activists took out a celebratory rally here after a public hearing, scheduled for Friday, on the Chutka Nuclear Power Project was indefinitely postponed by the Mandla Collector. They had threatened to picket the hearing on the environment impact…

In December 2010, Indian actress, Jayamala was investigated by the Crimes Branch of the police, on order of the Kerala state government in India, and then officially charged with violating Indian law. Her crime, it seems, is to belong to a gender…

Judging by the travel guidelines issued by various countries to their citizens travelling to India – from being duped into marriage to being slain by our terrible driving skills or attacked by stray dogs – it seems that the foreign traveller has…

US Cities Which Banned GMOs Below are U.S. counties, cities and states which ban or call for restrictions on GMOs: Mendocino County, California – The ordinance, Measure H, was passed by referendum on March 2, 2004. Marin County, California Santa Cruz County,…

Courtesy: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/shocking-betrayal-on-western-ghats/article4724986.ece An open letter from Madhav Gadgil says Kasturirangan panel report will rob the region of its biodiversity Dear Dr. K. Kasturirangan, J.B.S. Haldane, the celebrated 19th-century scientist and humanist who quit England protesting its imperialistic invasion of Suez to become an…

The following declaration is the result of the World Social Forum Extractives Assembly. Some EJOLT collaborators joined the discussions and EJOLT supports this declaration: We, organisations assembled here, bear witness to a global extractivist boom that is leading to great misery for…

Brussels, May 21, 2013 Courtesy: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=19d3da1852472c315fcece5dd&id=1e68eaa372&e=%5BUNIQID%5D Today, a global coalition of economists and activists release a 200p report on a variety of initiatives to leave “unburnable” fuels in the soil. The EU funded EJOLT network studied a range of campaigns and innovative proposals…

Dear Friends, The PPSS invites you to join the ‘Black Day’ on June 22nd, 2013, the 8th anniversary of the day when the (now expired) MoU between the Government of Orissa and POSCO was signed at the behest of the Manmohan Singh government….

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Intercultural Resources is a Centre for Research, Documentation & Intervention on issues related to the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. Social Movements and People’s Struggles are the two main areas of research and documentation ICR is engaged in. It is based in Delhi, India. Email: icrindia2016@gmail.com